Section 7 — Power of Government to issue directions. | THE PUDUCHERRY CINEMAS(REGULATION) ACT, 1964

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7. Power of Government to issue directions. – The Government may, from 
time to time, issue directions to any licensee or to licensees generally, requiring the 
licensee or licensees to exhibit such film or class of films having a scientific or 
educative value, such films dealing with news and current events, such 
documentary films, indigenous films, or such other films having special value to 
the public, as may have been approved by the Central Government in that behalf 
from time to time; and where any such directions have been issued, those 
directions shall be deemed to be additional conditions and restrictions subject to 
which the licence has been granted; 

  Provided that no direction issued under this section shall require the 
licensee to exhibit any such film or films exceeding two thousand feet at, or for 
more than one-fifth of the entire time taken for, any one show.  
 
 
 
 
 



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Section 1 · Short title, extent and commencement.Section 2 · Definitions.Section 3 · Cinematograph exhibitions to be licensed.Section 4 · Licensing Authority.Section 5 · Restrictions on powers of licensing authority.Section 6 · Licensing authority to permit construction and reconstruction of buildings, installation of machinery etc., for cinematograph exhibitions.Section 8 · Power of licensing authority to issue direction.Section 9 · Power to suspend exhibition of films in certain cases.

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